WILLIAM B. BEAN, Walter Reed. A biography, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 190, $12.95. I enjoyed reading Dr Bean's life of Walter Reed. Its style and content fall somewhere between the writings of Paul de Kruif and Gwyn Macfarlane's life of Howard Florey. In fact, there are striking resemblances to Macfarlane's book, as the author has been to enormous trouble...

Walter C. Willett MD, DrPH, is Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Chairman of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health as well as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He studied food science as an undergraduate at Michigan State University, obtained a medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and a Doctorate in...

With Walter J. Gehring’s death in Basel on May 29, 2014, the scientific community lost one of the pioneers of molecular developmental biology. Walter will be missed by a large community of friends and colleagues, but he lives on in the work of the many scientists whom he had mentored and who now work in his and related fields. Walter J. Gehring, born in Zurich in 1939, became interested in deve...

I describe a methodology for optimising n Shewhart -charts x operating on parallel production lines in a factory. The goal is to maximise the factory-wide probability of detecting an out-of-control condition subject to a constraint on the expected number of false signals. I use non-linear programming to appropriately set the -charts’ x control limits incorporating information about the probabil...

l’influence déterminante de walter scott au moment où toute une génération écrit des romans historiques apparaît surtout dans l’hommage que lui rendent des figures comme balzac ou hugo au xixe siècle. cette influence qu’affirment et saluent également les histoires littéraires, est due essentiellement au renouveau de la conception romanesque du roman historique, genre ancien, mariant fiction et ...

a Cardiovascular Disease Service, Department of Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, United States b Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Service, Department of Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, United States c Internal Medicine Service, Department of Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, United ...

seminar audiences at London Business School and the Rotman School, Nick Argyres and three anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions on various drafts of this paper. I am particularly grateful to all of the employees of the Bank who spent so much time talking with me and sharing the data that led to this paper.

This article takes issue with a recent book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) of the same title. Ziliak and McCloskey argue that statistical significance testing is a barrier rather than a booster for empirical research in many fields and should therefore be abandoned altogether. The present article argues that this is good advice in some research areas but not in others. Taking all issues which h...